Limiting what faction you can choose to play would be far worse than any of the issues youve mentioned. They may need to figure out balance issues but forcing customers to choose a faction they dont want would create a huge negative public reaction. Hopefully Bioware/EA is smart enough to not implement such a draconian policy. Of course I doubt whatever they try to do is going to satisfy everyone, so I expect PVPers to complain regardless.

Did my sage's first mission impersonating a Sith, infiltrating Empire territory. I found it amusing that she started speaking with an English accent when trying to bluff past the guards. Wonder if there are impersonation style missions for any of the other Republic classes. And hmmmmm, does that mean Empire classes impersonating as Republic drop the english accent?

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A Pew Research Center poll found nearly half of Americans hold the false belief that TARP was passed under President Obama, while only 34 percent know it originated under Bush."Oh yeah?" Bush replied. "50% of the people were wrong."

That was a huge pet peeve of mine in the prequel movies. They used the same freaking foreign words that we already new and tried to put new meanings to them. It was lazy. I gotta give points to Star Trek for actually developing a workable Klingon language.

Been playing exclusively as a Empire character but figured I'd check out the Rebellion to see how they start off. I tried making a good aligned Jedi Knight but quickly found its hard being nice after being so bad previously. So I created a Jedi Consular and I'm playing that evil. I gotta say its a lot of fun. I'm so rude to everyone, lie, bloodthirsty, and am not in tune with the ways of the Force. Yet everyone is still so civil and patient with me. It's quite a bit of fun.

Finished chapter 1 of my Jedi Knight last night. It felt pretty good to do it at appropriate level instead of steamrolling it 5 levels above like my trooper. The trooper story started off well, but I have to say overall the JK story was 100 times better.

I've been at lvl 28 w/ my jedi sage this week, bringing Theran along instead of Qyzen for a change of pace. Theran started off with a beard and stache. Then, after I hit 29 I decided to and buy Theran an orange chest armor w/ my Tatooine commendations. Next time I look at him he's lost the beard and has a 70's style stache. Has anyone else seen their companions change appearance like that?

I haven't tried seeing if his beard comes back with the old gear. I'll try that tonight.

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When you unsubscribe from an MMO, do your characters typically get wiped out, or are they stored on the servers for a while? If they're stored, what is the typical time limit?

I'm pretty much burned out on SWTOR, and between my crazy travel schedule (I'm home for 3 days out of the next 45) and the glut of other games coming out the next couple months, I have a hard time justifying $15/month for something that I won't be playing much, if at all.

only one I've seen that doesn't is FFXI, which not only deletes your characters, but they require you to rebuy the game AND make a fresh account to start up again. This would be why I never went back to it.

Here's a recipe for sucking the fun out of the game: quest as a fully specced tank with a healer companion. You never die but it feels like you are attacking the mobs with fine grain sandpaper

My first 50th was a tank-specced sith warrior (who always used healer companion) and I never felt like I was attacking mobs with a fine grain of sandpaper, especially after leveling up some other classes. (i.e. my warrior's DPS does not seem that far off my DPS alts other than the massive AE of my bounty hunter who can take out a whole group of weak mobs with one ability).

Here's a recipe for sucking the fun out of the game: quest as a fully specced tank with a healer companion. You never die but it feels like you are attacking the mobs with fine grain sandpaper

My first 50th was a tank-specced sith warrior (who always used healer companion) and I never felt like I was attacking mobs with a fine grain of sandpaper, especially after leveling up some other classes. (i.e. my warrior's DPS does not seem that far off my DPS alts other than the massive AE of my bounty hunter who can take out a whole group of weak mobs with one ability).

That's surprising - at about 32 as JK you are forced to take the healer character and there was such a huge difference from the DPS companion. How have you geared your tank? Mine is very heavily weighted toward end and mitigation. Were you questing at level or somewhat over leveled for the mobs?

How have you geared your tank? Mine is very heavily weighted toward end and mitigation. Were you questing at level or somewhat over leveled for the mobs?

Standard stuff, I focused on +defense stuff mainly, mixing in a tiny bit of +str here and there. I normally focused on defensive talents while leveling up. I leveled my cybertech slightly faster than my character level so almost always had blue armor plating and modifications ready to insert in all my armor/weapon when I reached the next upgrade level.

My next highest level is a sniper and he is 36th. For a pure DPS class/spec, he just is not putting out great DPS. That may change in the next few levels though as I get some good DPS talents up the tree. My bounty hunter is just 17 maybe, but still seems to do way more DPS than my other characters at that level when it comes to AEing weak mobs.

My favorite character so far has been my Scoundrel, Scrapper spec. With Risha, mobs die in seconds. When I use Guss Tuno, I can solo anything in my level range (43) except for some of the wandering bosses in the heroic areas. Guss is a beast of a healer. In PvP, even post nerf, I have no issues. People die fast and I rarely get killed. I'm not sure why so many people are crying about the Scrapper/Operative nerf. OK, so we can not kill someone before the stuns wear off, but we are still very dangerous.

My only complaint with Smuggler has been the story. It seems so random. The first act flowed well, but it was kind of boring. The 2nd act has some very cool parts, but it just doesn't seem to flow well. The Smuggler dialogue options are entertaining though. Calling Darth Magus "Darth Mashface" gave me the giggles. Whoever did the Smuggler voice acting is really good too in my opinion. His delivery of the one liners is perfect. The biggest beef I have though is with how fickle Risha is. I always take her along on the important story bits, just because I like her story better than the other companions, and sometimes she completely contradicts herself. She advised me to kill this Hutt I was talking to, so I took the dark side option and threw a grenade down his throat. I lost -78 affection with her for it. What the hell? You just told me it was a good idea to kill him! I know she doesn't like me killing innocent people, but this Hutt wasn't an innocent.

Overall though I am really liking this game. I doubt I will get into end game stuff, but this is the first MMO where I want to play all of the class and faction combos just to see the stories.

I have received your transmission regarding a spamming incident but I have noticed that it wasn't really spam but your were just shouting out that you are looking for a group. What caught our attention is the fact that you flooded general chat with your "shout", since you placed the exact same phrase at east on half a dozen consecutive lines which some of the other players found irritating.

I'm here to inform you to make your calls for a group in general chat a little less, like just about 2-3 lines only. It is considered flooding for now but more reports could change it to spamming.

What they are saying is that I am not allowed to type a LFG message in general chat more than 2-3 times in any given period of time. Are you kidding me? Here's the problem, my chat box fills up with comments from npc characters as well as comments from my companion. I am assuming that other people have the same thing happen to them so if a LFG message is not sent every minute of so it's very possible that the first 2-3 LFG's will never be read by people that are also looking to group up. Since they don't give me any details of my message I can only assume that I typed the same LFG a half dozen times (that's six times) in about a 5 minute period. How anyone could be irritated by a LFG message in general chat and to report it as spam is stupid but for Bioware to investigate it and then decide that it's flooding is idiotic on their part. Honestly, does Bioware want customers?

Hit level 50 yesterday and I also didn't have any problems with Voss on the Republic side.

Well, I guess I'll give it another shot today, but there is a big thread about it on the forums and several people logged on to my server were having the same issue and talking about it in chat. In fact, one of the weird things about the quest is that it couldn't be abandoned, only reset.

I have received your transmission regarding a spamming incident but I have noticed that it wasn't really spam but your were just shouting out that you are looking for a group. What caught our attention is the fact that you flooded general chat with your "shout", since you placed the exact same phrase at east on half a dozen consecutive lines which some of the other players found irritating.

I'm here to inform you to make your calls for a group in general chat a little less, like just about 2-3 lines only. It is considered flooding for now but more reports could change it to spamming.

What they are saying is that I am not allowed to type a LFG message in general chat more than 2-3 times in any given period of time. Are you kidding me? Here's the problem, my chat box fills up with comments from npc characters as well as comments from my companion. I am assuming that other people have the same thing happen to them so if a LFG message is not sent every minute of so it's very possible that the first 2-3 LFG's will never be read by people that are also looking to group up. Since they don't give me any details of my message I can only assume that I typed the same LFG a half dozen times (that's six times) in about a 5 minute period. How anyone could be irritated by a LFG message in general chat and to report it as spam is stupid but for Bioware to investigate it and then decide that it's flooding is idiotic on their part. Honestly, does Bioware want customers?

Sorry, but if you spammed LFG for half a dozen consecutive lines in general chat, then learn some self control and patience. Sheesh.

It's not like I typed in 6 LFG requests all at the same time or even seconds apart. I'm not even given a log of the what happened and I can only assume that I entered the LFG request as I normally do... several minutes apart. So what you and Bioware are saying is that I should enter a LFG request and then sit patiently for how long? Should I wait 5 minutes or 10 minutes or 30 minutes? Really, I don't know what is considered acceptable to most people but if seeing "LFG whatever" every few minutes in group chat is annoying to some then I'm obviously very patient because I see this done all the time when I play.

It's not like I typed in 6 LFG requests all at the same time or even seconds apart. I'm not even given a log of the what happened and I can only assume that I entered the LFG request as I normally do... several minutes apart. So what you and Bioware are saying is that I should enter a LFG request and then sit patiently for how long? Should I wait 5 minutes or 10 minutes or 30 minutes? Really, I don't know what is considered acceptable to most people but if seeing "LFG whatever" every few minutes in group chat is annoying to some then I'm obviously very patient because I see this done all the time when I play.

What you claim and their response isn't the same.

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What caught our attention is the fact that you flooded general chat with your "shout", since you placed the exact same phrase at east on half a dozen consecutive lines which some of the other players found irritating.

If you managed to place the exact same phrase at least on a half a dozen consecutive lines in general chat, then you weren't waiting at all since chat scrolls by too quickly (as you yourself said) for "one post every few minutes" to end up as consecutive lines. One of ya'll aren't telling the truth. Frankly, given the detail provided in their response AND the fact that it must have been annoying enough for someone else to complain in the first place, the smart money is that you're the one who isn't.

So yeah, if you spammed LFG for half a dozen consecutive lines in general chat, then learn some self control and patience. If you didn't, then perhaps the proper response would be back to Bioware regarding their "findings" and not on a general chat board.

I was going to reply to this in a similar fashion to Blackadder, as my thought process seemed to mirror his on this. Instead Ill just ask why you find it idiotic that Bioware is responding to complaints? Clearly some people had issue with your alleged spamming. I thought Biowares response to you was fine. They made you aware that other people were irritated by your actions and requested that in the future you may want to adjust the frequency of your LFG messages. Seems like a fairly tempered and proper response to the issue.

I guess the question is what are consecutive lines? If I typed a total of 6 lines of text in one evening then technically they are consecutive lines but not necessarily typed one after another in a short period of time. I have no idea what Bioware is referring to because they did not give me any specifics other than someone complained about you. The fact that someone complained does not mean that I'm guilty of doing anything wrong. I did immediately ask Bioware to send me a transcript or more information of what they are referring to.

Why do I think Bioware is being idiotic? Bioware says that what I did was innocent and I simply was looking for a group but still says I am guilty of flooding the chat. Flooding is when a person is intending to make chat unusable by constantly entering the same text over and over again. I've seen what flooding is and six lines of text in a short period of time is not flooding in my opinion. Bioware accused me of doing something wrong but did not provide me with any evidence of what I did. Bioware does not provide it's customers with a good way to find a group without using the public chat tool and then complains when I use the public chat tool to find a group.

I guess the question is what are consecutive lines? If I typed a total of 6 lines of text in one evening then technically they are consecutive lines but not necessarily typed one after another in a short period of time. I have no idea what Bioware is referring to because they did not give me any specifics other than someone complained about you. The fact that someone complained does not mean that I'm guilty of doing anything wrong. I did immediately ask Bioware to send me a transcript or more information of what they are referring to.

Why do I think Bioware is being idiotic? Bioware says that what I did was innocent and I simply was looking for a group but still says I am guilty of flooding the chat. Flooding is when a person is intending to make chat unusable by constantly entering the same text over and over again. I've seen what flooding is and six lines of text in a short period of time is not flooding in my opinion. Bioware accused me of doing something wrong but did not provide me with any evidence of what I did. Bioware does not provide it's customers with a good way to find a group without using the public chat tool and then complains when I use the public chat tool to find a group.

Thou dost protest too much.

This is a simple issue. You spammed chat. Someone complained. They investigated and found enough of a problem to send you a very tame email. Instead of manning up and moving on, you're acting like this is the inquisition and you're demanding a full re-investigation. No MMO is going to give you that much information. They don't have the time or money to put forth any more effort into this. If you try to make this an issue, they'd just be better off banning you than spending any time on this because it's not worth their time. Put on your big boy pants and quit whining.

In the future, if you look at general chat and see this, you're doing it wrong:

Which reminds me; since this is the first MMO I've ever played I run into a lot of shorthand and acronyms that seem to exist only in the MMO domain. Usually, I can figure them out (like LFG = Looking For Group) but one that I've seen quite often is LFM.